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Yesterday’s round was not for the faint-hearted as regards our team. Following a sluggish start, our team managed to make a comeback, then by the 10th board found itself to be some 20 IMPS behind Turnu-Severin. However, with a splendid performance in boards 12, 13 and 14 our team made the breakthrough. The last board’sContinue reading “Kampala made it again by a thin margin”

On Wednesday 11 of March at 20:40 CET (Central European Time) I am looking forward to see you online. We are facing the Turnu- Severin team (captain jambier3). Once again, we’ll deploy a team and some of us will stay online as extraordinary replacement players (substitutes or subs). Please do not hesitate to contact me,Continue reading “Round 2 of ICL – 11 of March”

Minor suit slams are hard to bid. Indeed, missing a slam in minors can be frustrating and the fact that 3nt game is always preferred over a game in minors (that usually require 28 hcps in order to make) makes things even murkier. I found an interesting article I would like to share with youContinue reading “A short, but useful article”

OK, folks! Thank you , ALL, for your kind support. Our Team won a marginal victory over the team of Ternopil. Most of all, I would like to thank the players that made it happen this week : olsoys – skognes and greerm – yo_yo. You were great! Check our results here : http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=9111-1583351065

The ICL tournament is starting tonight at 21:00 CET. I am looking forward to check with you from 20:30 CET onwards. The official website of the ICL is located here http://intercity.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx

As I have been informed, we will play in the C Group at the group level. We will compete with six (6) other teams in this group. Our group is comprised of the following teams : Group C Pleven Polkovnik (Plevenpolk)  Turnu Severin (Jambier3) Ternopil (Manankin)                      Kampala (Antepa) Ramenskoye (Oleg_Gl)                  Ordu_Boztepe Smyrna (Yeguz)                              On Wednesday, 4Continue reading “Our group in the ICL”

antepa (captain) 0 1236789 delphinas fivewalker (substitute) gjambi greerm nekthen olsoys sharbillie (substitute) Skognes trampe123 vinch1971 (substitute) yo_yo Please stay tuned as I will send you a reminder message one day before the ICL tournament kicks off.

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone. The ICL is set to start next week on Wednesday, at 21:00 Central European Time. Therefore, we should make our last minute preparations and make sure that we’re ready to go. In order to do that, I would like you to check your schedules and send me by email or by BBOContinue reading “One week to go and two more players joining our effort”

Two weeks to go! Here there are, two very interesting articles on doubling (and redoubling) : http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/odds-on-doubling/ and http://robinsbridge.blogspot.com/2019/12/examples-of-doubling-good-and-bad.html

Welcome to the new member of our team, Skognes. Therefore, our team mebers so far, are : antepa (captain) 0 1236789 delphinas fivewalker (substitute) gjambi nekthen olsoys sharbillie (substitute) Skognes trampe123 vinch1971 (substitute)